Northern Ireland Open 2021 Draw, Live Scores and Schedule of Play
Northern Ireland Open Snooker returns to Belfast in 2021, and you can follow the latest results and schedule of play here.
The Northern Ireland Open runs from October 9-17 and will be the third ranking event of the season and part of the Home Nations Series.
Each player was required to win one qualifying round match in Leicester in August, with the exception of top 16 ranked players and three Northern Irish representatives – whose First Round matches have been held over to the main venue at the Waterfront Hall.
Judd Trump has dominated this event in recent years, claiming the title on three consecutive occasions, incredibly all by 9-7 scorelines over Ronnie O’Sullivan in the final.
Trump makes his return to snooker action after competing in the recent US Open Pool Championship, while O’Sullivan returns to the baize for the first time since withdrawing from the Championship League earlier this summer.
Reigning World Champion Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Kyren Wilson, Mark Williams, John Higgins and home favourite Mark Allen are among the other big names in action.
All matches up to and including the Last 16 are to be contested over the best of seven frames, with Quarter-Finals best of nine, Semi-Finals best of 11 and the final best of 17.
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Northern Ireland Open 2021 Schedule of Play
Saturday October 9
Last 128
7pm
2 Christopher Clifford 0-4 Gao Yang
3 Zhou Yuelong 2-4 Jimmy Robertson
17 Anthony McGill 3-4 Lee Walker
Sunday October 10
Last 128
10am
5 Stephen Maguire 4-2 Steven Hallworth
7 Stuart Bingham 4-1 Ben Hancorn
12 Yan Bingtao 4-0 Hossein Vafaei
1pm
9 Jack Lisowski 4-3 Ashley Hugill
15 John Higgins 4-2 Joe O’Connor
19 Mark Selby 4-1 Mark Lloyd
2pm
4 Mark Allen 4-1 Si Jiahui – *Allen makes a maximum break*
8 Robert McCullough 1-4 Sam Craigie
10 Neil Robertson 4-0 Barry Pinches
7pm
1 Judd Trump 4-1 Andrew Pagett
14 Kyren Wilson 4-0 Jamie Clarke
18 Gary Wilson 4-0 Jordan Brown
8pm
11 Ronnie O’Sullivan 4-0 Stuart Carrington
13 Barry Hawkins 4-1 Iulian Boiko
16 Mark Williams 4-1 Mark Joyce
Monday October 11
Last 64
10am
37 Yuan SiJun 2-4 Alfie Burden
40 Lyu Haotian 4-2 Ali Carter
42 Mitchell Mann 4-2 Xiao Guodong
1pm
6 Shaun Murphy 4-2 Bai Langning
38 Yan Bingtao 4-3 Duane Jones
45 Liang Wenbo 2-4 Luca Brecel
2pm
23 James Cahill 4-0 Fergal O’Brien
41 Mark King 4-0 Barry Hawkins
51 Cao Yupeng 3-4 Mark Selby
7pm
31 Tom Ford 0-w/o Ashley Carty
36 Ronnie O’Sullivan 4-1 Andy Hicks
46 Mark Williams 4-3 Elliot Slessor
8pm
39 Oliver Lines 4-0 Ben Woollaston
43 Robert Milkins 1-4 Kyren Wilson
44 John Higgins 4-2 Farakh Ajaib
Tuesday October 12
Last 64
10am
21 Lu Ning w/o Jamie O’Neill
30 Stuart Bingham 4-2 Sam Craigie
48 David Grace 0-2 David Gilbert
1pm
22 Jimmy Robertson 4-3 Sunny Akani
25 Peter Devlin 2-4 Mark Allen
32 Jackson Page 4-3 Noppon Saengkham
2pm
20 Judd Trump 4-0 Gao Yang
34 Martin O’Donnell 3-4 Ricky Walden
49 Louis Heathcote 4-3 Lee Walker
7pm
24 Simon Lichtenberg 3-4 Matthew Stevens
27 Hammad Miah 3-4 Stephen Maguire
35 Xu Si 0-4 Neil Robertson
8pm
28 Shaun Murphy 4-3 Allan Taylor
33 Fan Zhengyi 2-4 Jack Lisowski
47 Martin Gould 2-4 Jak Jones
Wednesday October 13
Last 64
10am
26 Liam Highfield 4-1 Ryan Day
29 Chris Wakelin 2-4 Tian Pengfei
50 Rory McLeod 0-4 Gary Wilson
Last 32
1pm
62 Mark King 1-4 Lyu Haotian
63 Kyren Wilson 2-4 Mitchell Mann
64 John Higgins 4-2 Luca Brecel
2pm
60 Ronnie O’Sullivan 4-1 Alfie Burden
61 Yan Bingtao 4-0 Oliver Lines
65 Mark Williams 4-2 Jak Jones
7pm
53 Jimmy Robertson 4-0 James Cahill
57 Stuart Bingham 4-3 Ashley Carty
67 Mark Selby 4-1 Gary Wilson
8pm
52 Judd Trump 4-2 Lu Ning
56 Shaun Murphy 4-3 Tian Pengfei
66 David Gilbert 4-2 Louis Heathcote
Thursday October 14
Last 32
10am
54 Mark Allen 4-1 Matthew Stevens
55 Liam Highfield 2-4 Stephen Maguire
59 Neil Robertson 1-4 Ricky Walden
1pm
58 Jackson Page 4-0 Jack Lisowski
Last 16
72 Ronnie O’Sullivan 3-4 Yan Bingtao
73 Lyu Haotian 1-4 Mitchell Mann
2pm
70 Shaun Murphy 4-1 Stuart Bingham
74 John Higgins 4-3 Mark Williams
7pm
68 Judd Trump 4-3 Jimmy Robertson
69 Mark Allen 4-3 Stephen Maguire
8pm
71 Jackson Page 3-4 Ricky Walden
75 Mark Selby 2-4 David Gilbert
Friday October 15
Quarter-Finals
12pm
76 Judd Trump 3-5 Mark Allen
2pm
77 Shaun Murphy 4-5 Ricky Walden
7pm
78 Yan Bingtao 5-0 Mitchell Mann
79 John Higgins 5-3 David Gilbert
Saturday October 16
Semi-Finals
1pm
Mark Allen 6-3 Ricky Walden
7pm
John Higgins 6-2 Yan Bingtao
Sunday October 17
Final
1pm & 7pm
John Higgins 8-9 Mark Allen
Prize Fund
Winner: £70,000
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-Final losers: £20,000
Quarter-Final losers: £10,000
Last 16 losers: £7,500
Last 32 losers: £4,000
Last 64 losers: £3,000
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Highest break: £5,000
Total: £405,000